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Photographer Horst Fass

Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war
with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century
with The Associated Press, died May 10, 2012.

AP file photoOn May 11, 1965, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas tries to get back on a U.S. helicopter after a day out with Vietnamese rangers. Faas was a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera.Request to buy this photo

AP file photoIn 1964, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, and Larry Burrows, Life Magazine photographer, are shown in Saigon. Faas became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn 1966, U.S. Marines scatter as a CH-46 helicopter burns after it was shot down near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoThe sun breaks through dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, as South Vietnamese troops, joined by U.S. advisers, rest after a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that didn't come.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoOn June 14, 1974, Faas photographed Presidents Anwar Sadat and Richard Nixon shaking hands for photographers as they posed in front of the pyramids at Giza, near Cairo.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn April 1969, a South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn this March 19, 1964, photo, one of several shot by Horst Faas that earned him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoA boy carries a toy rifle as he walks with his mother past French soldiers in battle gear at the Bastille Palace in Oran, Algeria.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoBoys belonging to the Katangese Youth Movement in 1961, wearing improvised uniforms of their own design, drill with homemade wooden rifles in the native quarter of Elisabethville, Congo.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoOn Jan. 26, 1961, scores of eager hands reach towards the Congolese official who distributes small rations of dried fish and palm oil to people at the hospital in Miabi, South Kasai, Congo.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoA sick and hungry Baluba child is photographed in 1961 at the Miabi Hospital in South Kasai, Congo.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoA Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and Vietnamese soildiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn this Jan. 1, 1966 photo, women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoInjured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn March 1965, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoMuhammad Ali works out in October 1974 before his bout against George Foreman in Zaire.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoLt. Col. George Eyster of Florida is placed on a stretcher after being shot by a Viet Cong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam, in 1966.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn March 1973, American prisoners of war look through barred wooden doors at the last detention camp at Ly Nam De Street in Hanoi, North Vietnam.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas/Michel Laurent | AP file photoIn 1971, a guerilla leader in Dacca, Bangladesh, beats a victim during the torture and execution of four men suspected of collaborating with Pakistani militiamen accused of murder, rape and looting during months of civil war.Request to buy this photo

Horst Faas | AP file photoIn this Aug. 1962 photo, South Vietnamese government troops from the 2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry sleep in a U.S. Navy troop carrier on their way back to the Provincial capital of Ca Mau, Vietnam.Request to buy this photo